DOM Parsing - Please help

[Vijay Verma]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to run the following very simple program on my machine to parse a very simple XML file.
It just returns Document object NULL.

Same code is working fine on another machine.

Note: there is no silly mistake. i have valid xml file at valid place.

Please help.



import org.apache.xerces.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.io.*;

class XML
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try{
String caseFile = "c:\\case-config\\config.xml";
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(caseFile);
System.out.println("\n\n----" + doc);
}catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

[Ulf Dittmer]

Can you read the file using java.io.File?

[Vijay Verma]

Yes I can read files using java.io

[Ulf Dittmer]

What I meant was: can you read this particular file with code in this particular Java class?

[Vijay Verma]

yes same xml file i can read with java program..
and i tried with many xml files but no use..

actually when i say factory.setValidating(true);

it gives some errors like Grammer not found etc.
[ October 21, 2005: Message edited by: Vijay Verma ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Does it work with validation turned off?

[Vijay Verma]

no becuase Document object is null.

[Makarand Parab]

Hey Vijay

Try this out and let me know

import org.apache.xerces.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.io.*;

class XML
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try{
String caseFile = "c:\\case-config\\config.xml";
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new File(caseFile));
System.out.println("\n\n----" + doc);
}catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

[Paul Clapham]

The code you posted does not tell you that the "doc" variable contains null. It is possible that its toString() method returns null, or the 4-character string "null", as well. And considering that the getNodeValue() method of an Element node does return null (check the API documentation for org.w3c.dom.Node), it's possible you have misidentified the problem.